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Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff
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Stuart Brady |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:08:29 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 02:39:03PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Well, since it is often the case that man pages cite shell input code
> like
>
> $ grep foo `find -name 'xxx.*'`
>
> it is quite important IMHO to have proper cut and paste from a man
> page displayed in a terminal. With other words: Within normal text,
> it's probably best to use \[oq] and \[cq], and within verbatim code
> fragments, plain ' and ` should be used as-is.
Huh? Sorry, but isn't that what \` and \(aq are for?
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Stuart Brady
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Michael Kerrisk, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, walter harms, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, walter harms, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Stuart Brady, 2008/06/18
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff,
Stuart Brady <=
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/15
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Getting properly rendered single quotes in groff, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2008/06/18